Hem In

Definition: Hem In

Hem In

Verb

1. Surround in a restrictive manner; "The building was hemmed in by flowers".

2. Surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Hem In

Circumjacence

Verb: lie around; adVerb: surround, beset, compass, encompass, environ, inclose, enclose, encircle, embrace, circumvent, lap, gird; belt; begird, engird; skirt, twine round; hem in; (circumscribe).

Restraint

Confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose; (circumscribe); cage; incage, encage; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes.

Crosswords: Hem In

Expression using "hem in": to hem in. Additional references.

Czech

sevřít (clasp, clench, close, clutch, constrict, grasp, grip, gripe, lock in), obklopit (beset, cluster round, encompass, engird, envelop, environ, ring, surround), obklíèit (beset, encircle, surround). (various references)

French

entraver, enfermer. (various references)

German

umgeben (beleaguer, encircle, enclose, encompass, gird, hem about, hem around, surround, to enclose, to encompass, to environ, to surround), einschließen (box, confine to quarters, encircle, enclose, entitle, imply, inclose, include, involve, lock in, lock up, put away, seal in, shut, shut away, shut in, stow, surround, to embed, to enclose, to entitle, to imprison, to inclose, to include, to involve), einkeilen (block in, box in, jam in, pen in, sandwich, sandwich in), einengen (constrict, curb, frustrate, hedge about, hedge around, narrow down, pinch, restrict, to constrict). (various references)

Hungarian

körülzár (encompass, to beleaguer, to encompass, to hem in, to interlock, to round, to shut in), bekerít (encompass, fence in, hunt down, mure, surround, to circumvent, to close in, to encircle, to enclose, to encompass, to fence, to fence in, to gird, to hedge in, to hem in, to hunt down, to lay down, to rail). (various references)

Manx

cruinnaghey stiagh. (various references)

Norwegian

omringe. (various references)

Pig Latin

emhay inay

Russian 

окружать hemmed in by the enemy окруженный врагами (hem about, hem round). (various references)

Spanish

encerrar (box up, carry, comprehend, confine, crate, encase, enclose, enshrine, ground, immure, inclose, include, lock in, lock up, pen, pen in, pen up, shut, shut away, shut down, shut in, shut up), cercar (bar, barrier off, beset, besiege, circle, cut off, encircle, enclose, encompass, fence, hedge, inclose, invest, lap, obstruct, wall in). (various references)

Thai

กักขัง (detain), ล้อมรอบ (circumambient, encircle, environ, hem about, hem around, hem round). (various references)

Turkish

sarmak (bandage, begird, beset, bind, bundle, cincture, clothe, coat, cocoon, coil, coil up, compass, do up, embrace, encircle, enclasp, encompass, enfold, enlace, entwine, entwist, envelop, enwrap, fold, fold up, furl, gird, hem about, hem around, infold, intwine, invest, involve, lap, overgrow, pack, reel, reel up, robe, roll, roll up, sheet, smother in, stalk, strap, surround, swaddle, swathe, tuck in, tuck up, twine, twist, whirl, wind, wind up, wrap, wrap up), sınırlamak (bound, call off, circumscribe, confine, constrain, hedge, hedge about, hedge around, hold in, imprison, limit, line off, localize, qualify, restrain, restrict, straitjacket, terminate, tie), kuşatmak (begird, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bottle up, cincture, circle, compass, embosom, encircle, enclose, encompass, engird, engirdle, envelop, environ, equip, gird, girdle, Girt, girth, hedge in, hedge round, hem about, hem around, inclose, invest, lay siege to, ring, shut in, surround, zone), kısıtlamak (bound, circumscribe, clip one's wings, constrict, cramp, hedge, hedge about, hedge around, inhibit, limit, qualify, restrain, restrict, stint, tie down). (various references)

Ukrainian

оточувати (bank, beleaguer, beset, besiege, box, circle, compass, cordon, embosom, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enlace, environ, gird, girdle, girth, hang about, hem about, inclose, mob, palisade, ring, skirt, surround, zone). (various references)

inplicat, inplicaverunt, perurguebant, perurguebat, perurguente, perurguere, urgeat, urget, urguebant, urguebantque, urguebat, urguerent, urgueret, urgues, ursi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hemin.

-1 letter: mien, mine.

-2 letters: hem, hen, hie, him, hin, men, nim.

-3 letters: eh, em, en, he, hi, hm, in, me, mi, ne.

+1 letter: haemin, hemins, inhume, inmesh, menhir.

+2 letters: chimney, haemins, harmine, helming, hematin, hemline, hemming, homines, hymenia, inhumed, inhumer, inhumes, machine, menhirs, meshing, rhenium, shipmen, theming, thymine.

+3 letters: anthemia, bohemian, bonhomie, camphine, chainmen, chairmen, chimneys, demijohn, exhuming, haematin, harmines, hedonism, helminth, hematein, hematine, hematins, hemlines, hexamine, homering, hominess, hominies, hominine, hominize, humanise, humanize, hymenial, hymenium, hymnlike, inchmeal, inhumane, inhumers, inmeshed, inmeshes, khazenim, lemonish, machined, machines, mechanic, methinks, mijnheer, minished, minishes, monished, monishes, monteith, morphine, munchies, murrhine, nephrism, phonemic, pitchmen, rheniums, scheming, shipment, theremin, thermion, thiamine, thymines, weighman, weighmen, whelming.